NOVPUB"I’m not cutting it anyway," Xia Xiaoxiao said without even thinking.
"But the homeroom teacher said everyone must cut it," Wu Lingyu obviously still had the good girl mentality, always ready to comply with any request from the teacher.
"Yu, you have to stick with us, firmly resist the evil forces with us!" Lin Wanning said as she waved her little fist.
"But you already have short hair," Wu Lingyu said weakly.
"Um..." Lin Wanning stuck out half of her tongue and tilted her head adorably.
"Hahaha..."
Besides Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi who had short hair, Xiao Ruawen, Xia Xiaoxiao, and Wu Lingyu all had long hair. Because they insisted on using Bee brand conditioner, their dark and glossy hair was like black jade, naturally they were reluctant to simply cut it off.
"Let’s all not cut it, I’m not going to keep a crew cut and we don’t even board at school, what can they do to us?" Xu Qingfan finally said.
In the past, Shan Fengtao often used boarding as a threat to blackmail people; she would resort to boarding as punishment for even the slightest displeasure. During their school days, they really feared being boarded because it meant notifying parents, having parents come to sign them out, and enduring some disparaging remarks from Shan Fengtao. Parents would certainly erupt in anger, resulting in a lot of scolding at home.
But now, they weren’t boarding at all, they could say they had no vulnerabilities, all rebellious.
At exactly 7:30, the bell for morning reading chimed on time.
A guy who seemed to be the Chinese class representative walked up to the podium, slapped the desk, and shouted, "Quiet down, it’s reading time now, take out your Chinese books, open to the first page, ’Spring,’ by Zhu Ziqing, prepare to read!"
The class gradually started filling with scattered reading voices. Xu Qingfan smiled and teased Xiao Ruawen, "Class monitor, your job’s been snagged."
"That’s not democratic at all!" Xiao Ruawen pouted and complained, "Exactly, they just elected the class committee when we were not around, as if we’re not part of class 76 at all!"
The girl had thought about continuing to shine as the class president in middle school, only to find the committee had been directly appointed by the homeroom teacher without her presence.
"This middle school sucks, the Experimental Primary School was way better!" Lin Wanning already missed the days on Liberal West Road by the first official day of school.
Lin Wanning couldn’t imagine how pitiful it would have been if she were the only one attending this school.
"Teacher, not cool!" Zhang Yiyi also said.
"Everyone, read. That idiot’s standing by the back door watching us!" Xu Qingfan’s water bottle reflected a blurry figure; he turned around only to find Shan Fengtao standing at the back door.
Seeing that the students who had embarrassed her were placed in the worst seats had cheered her up more than drinking a Sprite on a hot summer day, but seeing that several of them still had long hair, she couldn’t help but frown more deeply.
Especially one of them who sported a stand-up hairdo - she loathed these odd hairstyles the most!
Shan Fengtao grew increasingly agitated and seemed to make up her mind about something before swiftly returning to her office.
"That idiot’s gone!" Xu Qingfan casually remarked to the girls after safely seeing the other party leave.
"Brother Qing Fan, you really shouldn’t swear so much!" The girl, having been around Xu Qingfan for so long, saw him swearing with such frequency for the first time.
"My bad, my bad, we’ll refer to her as ’*buy a watch*’ from now on," Xu Qingfan clearly had some personal grudge to bear.
"Why *buy a watch*?" Lin Wanning, failing to follow, questioned further. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
"Why so many questions, kiddo!"
Lin Wanning: "???"
The girl tilted her head in confusion with a questioning look, but Xu Qingfan showed no inclination to explain.
Before Lin Wanning could continue probing, Shan Fengtao returned quickly, stood at the podium, and gestured for the students to quiet down with her hands.
"I already said yesterday that next week we’ll have a dress and grooming inspection, and asked students to cut their hair after going home. Some students did very well, cutting their hair that very afternoon, and I want to commend them here!"
Upon hearing this, those students who had preemptively cut their hair straightened up, glad they had been clever enough to cut their hair and now were being praised!
[Idiot!] Xu Qingfan cursed inwardly.
After a pause, Shan Fengtao continued, "I can understand that those who haven’t cut their hair were too busy moving stuff back to the dormitory in the afternoon and didn’t find the time, which is very normal!"
"Exactly, where was the time?"
"I didn’t even have time for lunch!"
"I wanted to cut it, but my mom said I would be late if I did, told me to cut it next week."
"..."
A group of students who had not cut their hair instantly concocted whatever excuses they could to defend themselves.
Xu Qingfan could guess what Shan Fengtao was going to say next; it was clearly targeted at them, first pulling their classmates to their opposite side, then from a moral high ground, criticizing them.
It must be said, the homeroom teacher was skilled at dividing and isolating.
Sure enough.
Shan Fengtao shifted her tone and said, "However! Our six classmates who live outside school have yet to cut their hair until now, I don’t know if their families can’t spare the twenty yuan for a haircut, or are truly that busy without even a little time to spare. The boarding students managed to cut their hair in just half a morning, I wonder, where did all your time go?"
The other students felt increasingly convinced by her words, gradually seeing Xu Qingfan and his group as antagonists and glaring at them with disdain.
